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California’s reported deaths from the ongoing influenza epidemic jumped over 50 percent, from 15 for the first week of 2018 to 32 for the second week of 2018.

Twitter COO Anthony Noto has resigned from his position at the company to become the CEO of finance startup SoFi.

Tinder’s lack of encryption means users can easily be spied on while using the popular dating app, according to a report.

It’s been a tough time for new owners of Bitcoin. After the decentralized digital currency rocketed to prices of $20,000 for one whole BTC, those values dropped roughly 50 percent and have bounced back and forth between $10k and $12k for the past week. And, while the asset’s 9-year history suggests the bear market won’t last forever, Bitcoin critics are out in force warning the recent adopters that the fundamentals of their investment are not sound.

Jordan Peterson has called bull on the left’s claims that SJW media maven Cathy Newman has been a victim of “threats” and “alt-right” bullying.

President Donald Trump directed attention to the news that five months of FBI texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were now missing.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch recently stated his belief that Facebook should pay publishers on their platform, “similar to the model adopted by cable companies,” while at the same time attacking both Facebook and Google for the rise of “scurrilous news sources.”

A Florida man sent a text message asking to buy marijuana when he realized that he sent the message to a police detective.

An Australian professor argues that small preschool furniture is “problematic” and “gendered,” in a recently published academic journal article.

Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley says that the investment advising firm will never create a Bitcoin fund.

A female student at Utah State University was hospitalized over the weekend after ingesting a Tide Pod.

Amazon Opens Automated Grocery Store Eliminating Cashiers

Oxford University extended exam times in math and computer science last year by 15 minutes in a bid to boost grades of female students, it has emerged.

A robot shop assistant in Scotland was fired after just one week due to customers avoiding him, according to a report.

Leicestershire Police have declined to investigate the Labour Party singling out white people to pay extra to attend a Jeremy Corbyn rally in Loughborough.

A Facebook manager has stated that the company “can’t guarantee” that social media is good for democracy but claims that they are working on improving their platform.

Twitter has temporarily restricted the account of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, citing “unusual activity” coming from the account.

Google’s fact-check feature appeared to almost exclusively target conservative news sites, fuelling concerns about bias at the company.

Conan O’Brien claimed Haiti “is truly a beautiful country” while he stayed at a luxury resort last week.

Despite receiving billions of dollars in government funding, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is unable to perform a rocket test fire due to lack of government assistance since the recent shutdown.

L’Oréal Paris UK’s Muslim model has stepped down from the company’s campaign after several anti-Israel Twitter posts surfaced.

Top tech venture capitalist Sir Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital caused a stir last week by claiming that American tech workers in Silicon Valley are lazy compared to tech workers in China. Sequoia is one of the oldest and highest performing Silicon Valley start-up

A 56-year-old man was taken away in an ambulance after he was assaulted by Antifa outside a New Right event in New York City.

Jordan Peterson’s must-watch takedown of SJW media maven Cathy Newman has gone viral, with over 2 million views on YouTube.
Now, predictably, the left-wing media is trying to reframe Newman’s abject humiliation as a case of misogynist bullying by the “alt-right.” The aim, of course, is to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by implying that anyone who takes the side of Newman’s critics is anti-women and pro-abuse.

The Labour Party is charging white people extra to attend a Jeremy Corbyn rally in Loughborough, Leicestershire, on February 17th.

A Turkish hacking group on Saturday took over the Twitter account of Dore Gold, who has served in the past in various official capacities, including as an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as ambassador to the United Nations and as the director-general of the Foreign Ministry.

Facebook is making it harder for users to see content from pages they follow — here’s how to ensure you see posts from Breitbart on your newsfeed.

Eighty-five percent of the LA Times newsroom employees voted for the first time in 136 years to unionize under the Commercial Workers of America.

The creator of the videos that revealed Planned Parenthood officials allegedly selling aborted baby parts for profit said Friday that the citizen journalists of the pro-life movement are beating out legacy media outlets in exposing the truth about abortion.

A bill has been introduced in the California legislature to dump the infamous “space tax” that extended the state’s revenue collection frontier to 62 miles above the Earth.

Facebook has announced plans to rank the visibility of news sources based on whether they are “broadly trusted.”

Facebook will reportedly begin to rank news outlets based on the level of trust users have in them as determined by surveys conducted by the social media platform.

A computer algorithm designed to determine the reoffending risk of criminals has been deemed inaccurate, according to a report.

A popular college textbook on sexuality complains that there aren’t enough “trisexual” characters on television.

Stanford researchers have developed an artificial intelligence device that predicts when a hospital patient will die.

Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed he didn’t want his nephew to use social media this week, criticizing “overuse” of technology.